Splendid Mayhem: The "Little People" Who Are Praying...

Welcome To Holland

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......
When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."
"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."
But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.
So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.
But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Monday, December 8, 2008

The "Little People" Who Are Praying...

I've gotten 2 messages today about young children who are praying for our sweet, beautiful Logen. As for prayers, I think we've started a Logen Movement. I cannot THANK YOU all nearly enough for the prayers. There's just something about the children who pray and they way they do it that tugs at my heart.

One of our little therapy buddies (who is near Logen in age) asked God "to take the yucky stuff away and make Logen healthy!!" Thank you little man J!

A mom & her lil' guy (who we know IRL) sent a message saying they pray for Logen every night. Thank you guys.

Please don't stop praying for Logen. Please.

Keep On Prayin'

2 comments:

cmontagDecember 9, 2008 at 9:31 AM
We are still praying hard for little Logen. The whole CP family on Babycenter is praying for you guys too. Keep us posted. Whether you know it or not, you are a real inspiration.

Carrie M (Oconomowoc, WI)
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momtoablessingDecember 10, 2008 at 5:04 PM
can u shoot me an email sometime I have a few questions for u. Audrianna is being hospitalized tommorow shes been having 1-2 seizures a day and hasnt eaten much since the 14th.

Audriannasmamaw@aol.com
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